399 Historic Events for March 19
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| 1895 |
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Los Angeles Railway established to provide streetcar service
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| 1897 |
Birth |
Betty Compson, Beaver UT, actress (Millionaire Kid, Mad Youth)
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| 1897 |
Birth |
L O'Flaherty, writer
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| 1897 |
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Yale defeated Penn, 30-10 in 1st major college basketball game
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| 1897 |
Death |
Antoine T d'Abbadie, French explorer (Ethiopia), dies at 87
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| 1898 |
Death |
Joao da Cruz, Brazilian poet, dies at 26
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| 1900 |
Birth |
Roy Roberts, Tampa Fla, actor (Petticoat Junction, Lucy Show)
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| 1900 |
Birth |
[Jean] Fr‚d‚ric Joliot-Curie, French physicist (Nobel 1935)
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| 1901 |
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Jo Mielziner, Paris, set designer (Carousel, Death of a Salesman)
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| 1901 |
Birth |
Gerrit Jan van Heuven Goedhart, Dutch Min of Justice (Nobel 1954)
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| 1903 |
Birth |
Benjamin M Telders, president of Dutch Liberal States Party
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| 1903 |
Birth |
James Bullock, colliery manager
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| 1904 |
Birth |
Tadeusz Zygfryd Kassern, composer
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| 1904 |
Birth |
John J Sirica, US federal judge (Watergate hearings)
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| 1905 |
Death |
Makar Grigori Ekmalyan, composer, dies at 49
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| 1905 |
Birth |
Albert Speer, German architect/minister of Armament (NSDAP)
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| 1906 |
Birth |
Adolf Eichmann, Ruhr Germany, Nazi Gestapo officer
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| 1906 |
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Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari's "Quattro Rusteghi," premieres in Munich
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| 1906 |
Birth |
Normand Lockwood, composer
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| 1907 |
Birth |
Marc Vaubourgoin, composer
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| 1907 |
Birth |
Kent Smith, NYC, actor (Peyton Place, Invaders)
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| 1907 |
Birth |
Elizabeh LeFanu Maconochy, composer
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| 1907 |
Birth |
Cor Treslem, [Cornelis L Melsert], actor/director (Willem van Oranje)
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| 1907 |
Death |
Thomas Bailey Aldrich, US writer (Stillwater Tragedy), dies at 70
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| 1907 |
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18.8 cm precipitation at Lewer's Ranch, Nevada (state record)
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